Christy Award

The 2000 Christy Awards

The Christy Awards began in the year 2000 with the goal of publicizing and honoring the very best of the previous year in Christian fiction. Named after the 1967 novel Christy by Catherine Marshall—sometimes considered […]

Christy Award

A New Song – Jan Karon

The inaugural award for contemporary Christian fiction might as well be for the first five of Jan Karon’s Mitford books. Karon began writing her stories of Father Tim, a humorous and easy-going Episcopal priest in […]